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To: Rick Julian who wrote (78460)	4/19/2000 9:33:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I think they may be set even earlier. It is my theory that the majority of people are wired for translative behavior, and only a minority for transformative behavior. As group animals it would be much more efficient to keep the pesky transformers to a minimum. But in times of extreme social pressure these transformers would be very useful in finding new paths for the translatives. I see no need to make a value judgment about translation vs transformation- I think they are merely completely different ways of looking at the world. Attainment of a non group vision comes or it doesn't- and you never know if you have it or not, really- there isn't any proof of the pudding. Acceptance makes life bearable, reason makes it interesting. That's enough.

To: Rick Julian who wrote (78460)	4/19/2000 11:38:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

My own childhood experience of religion was really quite benign; my "anti-religious/spiritual" sentiments developed simply because none of what was served up to me made any sense at all. It still doesn't. I simply see no reason to believe what seems so inherently improbable. One of the verses of the Tao Te Ching talks about how people, like trees, whose branches become rigid, are most susceptible to breakage. It's best to keep our minds and beliefs limber and pliable as long as possible in that flexibility allows us maximum growth I can imagine nothing less flexible and pliable, or less conducive to growth, than fundamentalist religion.